Archaeologists attempted to discover the origins of various human populations and determine if they had any interactions. The discovery of human teeth unearthed at the Hualongdong site in Anhui ...

Well if there's one thing genomic analysis has taught us, it's that no hominid is ever really gone. Seriously though. We've got, what, two Denisovan sites and there is already evidence for possible ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how and ...